Hi Friends-
Long time no e-! This newsletter has been coming a bit slowly of late as I've been getting myself settled into my new home upstate. It's been a very reflective, internal stretch so I'm feeling rather quiet.
That said, if you do want to listen to me lay out my thinking about a whole range of topics, a really wonderful podcast I recorded back in July just came out.
As part of Ten Percent Happier's series on self-compassion, I had a conversation with Dan Harris about heart-centered productivity. You can listen here.
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Writing is listening with your heart. There's so much goodness in this interview with poet Mark Nepo on Tami Simon's Insights at the Edge podcast — wisdom about writing, making art, and how the creative process unfolds. The two tidbits I particularly loved were about the difference between "managing time" and "being in time" and journaling as a way of having a conversation with your life. Such a beautiful way of thinking about it.
The subsidized millennial lifestyle is over. An excellent piece in The Atlantic about the fake startup empire we've been living in: "Several weeks ago, I met up with a friend in New York who suggested we grab a bite at a Scottish bar in the West Village. He had booked the table through something called Seated, a restaurant app that pays users who make reservations on the platform. We ordered two cocktails each, along with some food. And in exchange for the hard labor of drinking whiskey, the app awarded us $30 in credits redeemable at a variety of retailers. I am never offended by freebies. But this arrangement seemed almost obscenely generous. To throw cash at people every time they walk into a restaurant does not sound like a business."
Waiting for Rihanna. If you weren't already clear on what a total bad*ss Rihanna is, this profile should do the trick. I particularly adored her turn of phrase about art being a way you communicate with the world like a pen pal: "Me the designer, me the woman who creates makeup and lingerie — it all started with music. It was my first pen pal–ship to the world. To cut that off is to cut my communication off. All of these other things flourish on top of that foundation."
Enough with leaning in. A fantastic essay about how the assertiveness movement has taken a male-defined value system and sold it back to us as feminism: "For women in this cultural moment, assertiveness is perhaps the ultimate in aspirational personal qualities. At the nexus of feminism and self-help lies the promise that if we can only learn to state our needs more forcefully — to 'lean in' and stop apologizing and demand a raise and power pose in the bathroom before meetings and generally act like a ladyboss (though not a regular boss of course; that would be unladylike) — everything from the pay gap to mansplaining to the glass ceiling would all but disappear. Women! Be more like men. Men, as you were."
+ A note from the international council of 13 indigenous grandmothers.
+ Super-creepy new patents that Google is filing.
+ The biggest lie people in tech tell themselves.
+ The mental load of cooking.
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The beautiful artwork is from: Beetroot Design.
Much appreciation for link ideas to: Ann Friedman and The Broadsheet.
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Hi, I'm Jocelyn, the human behind this newsletter. I created the online course RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday, and I host Hurry Slowly — a podcast about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient by slowing down. | | | | |
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